Both were so ineffably amazing. I mean what more can you ask for. This thing is like full of classic, cliched tropes, and yet...and yet its so fucking awesome. It's a classic. It's a national treasure.
["According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . . "]
So in other words: an angel who is obsessed with food and old books accidentally, or otherwise, has done quite a few things to have gotten himself kicked out of heaven but hasn't--teams up with--a demon who got himself accidentally thrown out of heaven to accidentally, or otherwise, help humans but lies to hell about it while taking care of his plants and his angel.
There's the tropes/themes/motifs: good/evil, light/dark, bookshop/flower shop, slow burn, angst, witches/prophecies, nuns/satanic nuns, etc
There's the representation: asexual, gender-fluidity/non-binary, ethnicities, backgrounds, etc.
It explores a few major historical events in ways you've never seen before.
Plus the cast! You need to read the book NOW so you can go watch the show. It's the best 6 hours you'll have had in a long time. I know I'm totally missing stuff, but like go NOW and buy the book.
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